Happy 2009!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you had a wonderful holiday. I certainly did - and I got lots of crafty Christmas presents! Fabric, books, a glue gun (can you believe I haven't had one until now!) and paints and supplies to try carving lino. I'm looking forward to using some of my new supplies in my crafts this year.

One of the presents I got from Keith was this great book - a huge encyclopedia of embroidery stitches with great and detailed pictures!



I couldn't wait to get started on some embroidery so this is what I designed to practice some new stitches:


I'm sorry about the poor photo - can't wait 'til the light returns here to the far north! :-) I promise I'll get a better shot of the finished piece. Anyway, I designed a little sampler to help me try some new stitches, and I wanted it to be something inspirational for the new year... I scanned the pattern for you if you'd like to make one too! There are a lot of straight lines to make trying new stitches really simple - if you do decide to make a new year's sampler yourself, I'd love to see your result!

Click for a larger view of the pattern:

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Upplagd av kl.
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17 comments:

  1. Simone de KlerkJanuary 2, 2009 at 10:39 PM

    Happy new year to you Karin! I enjoyed traveling through your blog! You make wonderful projects!

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  2. Christy January 3, 2009 at 1:41 AM

    Happy new year Karin! I will give your embroidery pattern a try!

    Wishing you a happy, crafty year! xx

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2009 at 2:36 AM

    happy new year to you too Karin!! Your sampler is gorgeous, so cute I will have to add it to my to do list, thank you!! :)

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  4. LizzieJaneJanuary 3, 2009 at 6:13 PM

    Happy New Year Karin. I hope you had a wonderful time during the Christmas season. I love your pattern sampler. I will have to give it a try.
    x

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  5. Struinkunst by LisetteJanuary 4, 2009 at 11:11 AM

    Thank you so much! And I love the design - thanks for sharing the pattern. And of course a Happy New Year to you too.

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  6. SamJanuary 4, 2009 at 6:02 PM

    Here via Craft magazine. This looks like a great idea. I want to learn embroidery, so I will try your sampler.

    Thanks for sharing the pattern :-)

    Happy New Year.

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 4, 2009 at 10:52 PM

    What a wonderful pattern! I have big plans for '09 and I need to learn some new stitches so I'm hoping to have the time to try this out. Thank you for sharing!

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  8. Rachel@oneprettything.comJanuary 4, 2009 at 10:57 PM

    Wow I love this! I just came over from Craft to check it out. I'll be linking to it as well. Off to explore the rest of your blog!

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  9. UnknownJanuary 5, 2009 at 6:34 AM

    Happy New Year! I'm going to give your embroidery a try - I just posted that I want to do more :)

    Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving such a sweet comment!

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  10. PattyJanuary 5, 2009 at 11:38 AM

    Thanks for the pattern, Karin! I think I will make it my first project of the new year.

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  11. CarolineJanuary 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM

    Thanks very much for the pattern! I think it's just the thing to get my little sister into embroidery. : )

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  12. AnonymousJanuary 5, 2009 at 6:50 PM

    How lovely! Thank you for sharing. =)
    I hopped over from the Craftzine blog to check this project out.

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  13. OndineJanuary 6, 2009 at 4:10 PM

    This is so pretty!
    Can I ask you - what is the name of the type of fabric you would use for this project???

    Thanks!

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  14. KarinJanuary 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM

    Thanks so much for all the nice comments everyone! Ondine, I just used a piece of white cotton fabric from my mother's stash, but you could use any fabric you want, linen would be pretty too. Anything works!

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  15. LauriJanuary 8, 2009 at 3:21 AM

    Happy New Year to you! I just found your blog and I LOVE your little sampler pattern!!! I'm definitely going to try that one out for myself...hopefully...when it's actually still the "New Year"...lol!

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  16. JossanJanuary 13, 2009 at 8:50 PM

    Oh, what a nice pattern! I found your blog through craftgossip.com :)
    Is it a good book? Im thinking of buying Bonniers stora bok om broderi, which is a good book, but the one you have seems fun too! :)

    Have a great day and feel welcome to visit my little blog. :)

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  17. RachelJanuary 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM

    Hi! I found your pattern via craft.com, and I did my own sampler! I thought you might like to see how someone else's take on your design came out. Visit my blog and take a look!

    I hope you make another one next year!

    http://potluckcrafters.blogspot.com

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